Wow...just.. Wow. Also is it bad that I was thinking that on the Enterprise they would be celebrating something more universal then Christmas because of all of the different alien races and traditions on the ship. I blame my husband for thinking that. He made me watch all those 10 hour Star Trek marathons. It's his fault I even know anything about any of this. Santa being an alien energy ball explains a lot really, now I know how he fit in my chimney.

This was blatently retarded. Ignoring the obvious stuff like the grinches and the clothes (they DID have shore leave clothes on the show ya know and they didn't look like rejected buck rogers costumes) christmas is NOT celebrated in starfleet... at least not in such a widespread way.

Why? Because star trek revolves around an evolved human race. In other words ridiculous nonsense like religion is all but extinct not by force, but by choice. The closest thing we ever saw were some visions of a victorian Xmas by picard in Generations and a forth-wall joke involving Q where the enterprise was essentially turned into the hallmark christmas ornament. Also the fact that roddenberry and 1/3 of the original series cast were jewish kind of made it dumb to do a christmas episode.

Long story short, the only holidays you ever see on star trek are alien holidays, because star trek is human-centric and is made out to show all alien races as primitative and/or inferior in some way. Seriously, star trek is specist.

It's amazing this comic ever got released as now days the paramont guys are real sticklers for "Cannon".

I think data is asking geordi if his comment "you too" is meant as a humorous reply to riker telling him to have fun. ah! the hilarity!

And is it just me, or is geordi telling wesley to turn around and check out the hotties when they are waiting to get into the holodeck? or is there another interpretation to his comment to "...enjoy the view."?

Actually HowardC... they made mention of Christmas many times in the many Star Trek show. Not to THIS length, or this level of ridiculousness, but it apparently is still in existance in this "utopia future".

Marvelous. As mind-shatteringly bizarre as the costumes were, my vote for most disturbing moment was Geordi, wearing Aquaman's gimp suit, tousling the hair of Wesley Crusher in a quasi-futuristic sailor outfit and encouraging him to turn around and check out his mom's ass